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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates
I decided that it was not wisdom that
enabled poets to write their poetry,
but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets
who deliver all their sublime messages
without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
Where there is reverence there is fear,
but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear,
because fear presumably has a wider
extension than reverence.
- Socrates
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
Marriage is a fine institution -
but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
- Mae West
Marriage is a wonderful institution,
but who would want to live in an institution?
- H. L. Mencken
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
- Henny Youngman
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
The four most important words in any marriage...
"I'll do the dishes."
- Anonymous
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
Always remember the three magic words: You're right dear.
- Anonymous
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West
I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
They have come up with a perfect understanding.
He won't try to run her life,
and he won't try to run his, either.
- Anonymous
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
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